The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ubuntu over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the West Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 164 165 150
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -15
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 8 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.219% 0.123% 0.137%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.887% 0.507% 0.484%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 4
Average salary £23,500 £22,500 £29,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.44% -23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,100 £22,500 £22,800
10% offered a salary of more than £23,900 £22,500 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
902 789 827
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 24.69% 24.34% 28.26%
Number of salaries quoted 742 657 695
Average salary £30,125 £34,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.39% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £20,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ubuntu
Yorkshire

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Ubuntu across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

West Yorkshire Ubuntu Jobs Demand Trend

Ubuntu
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Ubuntu across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Ubuntu Salary Trend

Ubuntu
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Wakefield -5 2 £23,750 +5.55%
Leeds -16 1 £18,000 -20.00%
Ubuntu
Yorkshire

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Ubuntu also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Ubuntu.

1 30 (100.00%) Linux
2 23 (76.67%) Apache
2 23 (76.67%) MySQL
3 22 (73.33%) Red Hat
4 16 (53.33%) MongoDB
5 13 (43.33%) Web Services
6 12 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (40.00%) Amazon S3
6 12 (40.00%) Amazon AWS
7 11 (36.67%) CloudFront
7 11 (36.67%) CSS3
7 11 (36.67%) Magento
7 11 (36.67%) Git (software)
7 11 (36.67%) nginx
7 11 (36.67%) Percona
7 11 (36.67%) Route 53
7 11 (36.67%) HTML5
7 11 (36.67%) Amazon ELB
7 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
7 11 (36.67%) PHP
7 11 (36.67%) Internet
7 11 (36.67%) CSS
7 11 (36.67%) Project Management
7 11 (36.67%) Scrum
7 11 (36.67%) TDD
7 11 (36.67%) Degree
7 11 (36.67%) Symfony
7 11 (36.67%) Drupal
7 11 (36.67%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (33.33%) UNIX

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Ubuntu also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Ubuntu. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (43.33%) Web Services
2 11 (36.67%) CSS
2 11 (36.67%) Symfony
2 11 (36.67%) HTML5
2 11 (36.67%) CSS3
3 5 (16.67%) Memcached
3 5 (16.67%) LAMP
4 4 (13.33%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 23 (76.67%) Apache
2 12 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 12 (40.00%) Amazon AWS
3 11 (36.67%) CloudFront
3 11 (36.67%) Route 53
3 11 (36.67%) Amazon ELB
3 11 (36.67%) Drupal
3 11 (36.67%) Magento
3 11 (36.67%) nginx
4 5 (16.67%) MS Exchange
5 4 (13.33%) Tomcat
6 3 (10.00%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (30.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.333%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) Internet
2 7 (23.33%) DHCP
2 7 (23.33%) DNS
3 6 (20.00%) SAN
3 6 (20.00%) NAS
4 5 (16.67%) IMAP
5 2 (6.667%) Network Security
5 2 (6.667%) Firewall
5 2 (6.667%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (76.67%) MySQL
2 16 (53.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) Git (software)
2 4 (13.33%) Eclipse
2 4 (13.33%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Administrator
2 14 (46.67%) Software Engineer
3 11 (36.67%) Graduate
4 10 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
5 7 (23.33%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (10.00%) Storage Systems Administrator
6 3 (10.00%) Test Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Software Test Engineer
7 2 (6.667%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (6.667%) Tester
7 2 (6.667%) Software Tester
8 1 (3.333%) Web Tester
8 1 (3.333%) Junior Systems Administrator
8 1 (3.333%) Junior
8 1 (3.333%) Data Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (33.33%) UNIX
3 8 (26.67%) Debian
4 6 (20.00%) CentOS
5 5 (16.67%) Windows
6 4 (13.33%) SUSE
6 4 (13.33%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Scrum
1 11 (36.67%) TDD
1 11 (36.67%) Continuous Integration
1 11 (36.67%) Project Management
2 5 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 4 (13.33%) Migration
3 4 (13.33%) Manual Testing
3 4 (13.33%) Agile Testing
3 4 (13.33%) Automated Testing
3 4 (13.33%) Software Testing
4 1 (3.333%) Web Testing
4 1 (3.333%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) PHP
1 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (13.33%) Java
3 4 (13.33%) SQL
4 2 (6.667%) Python
4 2 (6.667%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.333%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) ISEB
2 4 (13.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) VMware Server
1 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.333%) vSphere
2 1 (3.333%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.333%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Nagios
1 5 (16.67%) ZABBIX
1 5 (16.67%) Sysprep
1 5 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (73.33%) Red Hat
2 11 (36.67%) Percona
3 6 (20.00%) VMware
4 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (16.67%) CA
5 1 (3.333%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (3.333%) Google